Zhengzhou: Subway stuck due to heavy rain: 100,000 people evacuated
-Water flows into the flooded car-
“Situation of nine deaths and a lifetime”:
In just one hour, we recorded the highest rainfall of 200 mm ever.
Zhengzhou, China:
Floods occur due to heavy rain.
The subway got stuck and water flowed into the flooded car.
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated and are in a serious situation.
Courier Japon
https://courrier.jp/news/archives/254356/
Henan Residents Hit Out at Lack of Warning of Zhengzhou Flood Horror
Video clips of the floods
posted to social media showed a man inside his SUV as the turbulent, muddy water rose above the hood as well as cars with lights on being swept on their sides into a fast-flowing torrent.
In other clips,
people wait patiently in a subway train as the waters rise to waist height,or desperately try to lift themselves and children out of the main current as they are swept down the street.
A Zhengzhou resident surnamed Wang
said there had been no warnings issued to local people before the city was flooded, and the subway had been running a normal service.
“There was no warning, not even on the subway, which should have been suspended,” Wang said. “So many people were unprepared.”
Sources told RFA that the media has been ordered not to report on the discharge of floodwaters, nor on the details of the flooding of the Zhengzhou subway.
Veteran journalist Hong Tao said
the government statements led people to believe that the situation was under control by around 9.00 p.m.,
when in fact there were still passengers trapped in trains and calling for help as late as 9.00 p.m.
Radio Free Asia
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/henan-floods-07212021080107.html